WWS & WWA | February 5th - 12th

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Did you know that here in Maine, on March 18th, sunset will be at 7:38pm!? Currently sunset is right around 5:07pm for where we are, Spring, it's in sight! This week I put together my seed catalog order, and we will start some plants indoors here once they arrive. While we look ahead to spring (it was, ahem, 4 degrees here this morning), we continue to look towards sales for inspiration, and recognize the subtle shift in produce offered on sale and it's origin help us track the coming of our own planting season.

Well, enough dreaming, here is....

What We Spent 

Shaw's

  • 1.55lbs Steak Tips - $7.24
  • 1lb. Italian Sausage - 1.99
  • 2 Bags Sour Cream & Onion Chips - Free (store coupon)
    Total: $9.23

Market Basket
  • 39oz Package of Kielbasa - $5.99
  • 3 Small Heads of Broccoli - Free (the cashier rang these in at $1.99 each, not $0.99/lb, so customer service just refunded me the money)
  • 2.59lbs of Green Beans - $3.34 ($1.29/lb)
  • Parsley Bunch - $0.79
  • 2 Cucumbers - $1.00
  • A Bag of Misc Garlic - $0.79 (clearance rack)
  • 1/2 Gallon 2% Milk - $1.96
  • Salsa Verde - $3.00
  • Salsa - $1.50
  • Thousand Island Dressing - $1.79
  • 4 Knorr Pasta Sides - $3.52 ($0.88/ea)
  • Tax: $0.25
    Total: $23.94

Gifted Food
  • My In-Laws gave us two dozen eggs from their chickens and 1/2 of a small cabbage head they didn't want. They also gave us some homemade Chinese food (not pictured).
  • A friend gave us a lemon from their relative's backyard in California
Ebisu Performs Quality Control Testing on the Parsley


Total for 2nd Week of February: $33.17
Total for February: $103.02
Cumulative Total for 2021: $327.89

What We Ate

Planned & Prepped - Did it Go as Planned?

If you recall from my Plan and Prep from earlier this week, I didn't have a very concrete plan for the entire week. We did end up with more leftovers than I expected on Wednesday, which helped carry us through for work lunches, and I made a small batch of Chipotle Chicken Chili on Thursday which helped close out the week, along with a few other misc leftovers, meaning we did not need the chicken and roasted potato dinner. Hooray for using up what's in the fridge!

What didn't go to plan was eating the sherbet ice cream that I had hoped to finish off as part of the freezer challenge. I ended up making a skillet chocolate chip cookie over the weekend that was plenty rich enough to carry us for the week dessert-wise. The cookie was not planned, as I had wanted to freeze the dough for later, but it was just to crumbly and dry to form into log or dough balls. Oh well, you win some, you lose some, and the sherbet won this round for sure.

Even with a lot of the fresh items we had this week, I still found our meals to be quite "heavy." Next week I hope to push out of that and focus on lighter meals that are less red meat and pasta heavy. While we love these foods, too much of them gets old after a while, like most things I suppose!
Dinners that I also Featured in the Plan & Prep Post Earlier this Week


What we Actually Ate:

  • Breakfasts
    • Bagel, Egg, and Cheese Sandwiches
    • Instant Oatmeal w/ Homemade Apple Butter and Walnuts
    • Granola Bars & Peanut Butter
  • Lunches
    • Sirloin Steak w/ Stovetop Mac & Cheese
    • Sirloin Steak w/ Baked Potato & Green Beans
    • Leftover Chinese Food from the In-Laws
    • Leftover Creamy Kielbasa Pasta w/ Green Beans or Beets
    • Chipotle Chicken Chili
    • Turkey Pot Pie Filling Over Egg Noodles
  • Dinners
    • Homemade Calzones w/ Chips & Crudité
    • Creamy Kielbasa Pasta w/ Green Beans & Biscuits
    • Chicken Taquitos w/ Blue Corn Chips & Crudité
    • Steak & Salmon w/ Rice & Green Beans
    • Buffalo Chicken Dip Pasta (we had leftover buffalo chicken dip in the freezer, which we used in calzones, pizza bites, and mixed with pasta)
    • Leftovers Consisting of Buffalo Chicken Pasta, Stovetop Mac & Cheese, Broccoli, Beets, etc
Creamy Kielbasa Pasta


How did your meal prep and planning go this week?


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